#politics

Information is the mortar that both builds and destroys empires ↗

— Tobsha Learner

#intelligence #politics #intelligence

All normal life, Peter, consciously or otherwise, resent domination. If the domination is by an inferior, or by a supposed inferior, the resentment becomes stronger. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#life

As long as human labor power, and, consequently, life itself, remain articles of sale and purchase, of exploitation and robbery, the principle of the “sacredness of human life” remains a shameful lie, uttered with the object of keeping the oppressed slaves in their chains. ↗

— Leon Trotsky

#morality #politics #violence #wage-labor #life

Women have more to prove than men when it comes to politics. ↗

— Julie Nixon Eisenhower

#men #more #politics #prove #than

The world is already yours - why try to conquer it? ↗

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

#acceptance #appreciation #conquer #consciousness #contentment

I’m a handyman. I work with my hand. I masturbate for a living. That’s right, I’m in politics. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#politics #life

The prevailing quality of life in America -- by any accepted methods of measuring -- was unarguably freer and more politically open under Nixon than it is today in this evil year of Our Lord 2002. ↗

— Hunter S. Thompson

#politics #life

But all our differences hardly measure up to the values we all hold in common... ↗

— Joe Biden

#life

In Paris and London he had seen nothing to make a return to life worth while; in Washington he saw plenty of reasons for staying dead. ↗

— Henry Adams

#washington #education

Nothing so removes a man from his inner, mysterious, real life, nothing makes him so deaf and dumb as the picture of these petty passions and petty crimes which calls itself the world of politics. ↗

— Vladimir Odoevsky

#politics #life